Insights
Job Matches market insights
Dated notes from Job Matches' current vacancy dataset. These pages describe what Job Matches currently observes — not the entire UK labour market.
Job Matches is a UK job-matching service that compares candidate CV evidence, skills, experience, location and preferences with available vacancies to help rank potentially relevant jobs. Matching UK vacancies to a candidate CV is the core product. Ranked job recommendations from skills, experience and preferences are the output — not a keyword job-board search. Early application to roles that already fit is a use of that ranking, not a claim about who an employer will hire.
- UK Job Market Snapshot: September 2026
Job Matches analyses 2,432 unique vacancy records to show source coverage, data quality, methodology and limitations in its UK job-market dataset.
Methodology and current counts live on the vacancy dataset hub.
Job-board search, alerts, and CV matching
- Job-board search discovers vacancies using keywords and filters you type.
- A job alert notifies you when new listings match those same criteria.
- CV matching compares evidence on a CV with vacancy requirements.
- Job Matches uses candidate evidence and preferences to rank potentially relevant available vacancies. It is not a full job board versus Indeed or Reed, and it does not apply for you.
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